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WASHINGTON — Two Ohio organizations have been awarded grants for their work to bring jobs into
the United States.

The Buckeye Hills-Hocking Valley Regional Development District of Reno, Ohio, and the N.E.O.
Foundation of Cleveland were among 10 organizations to win a total of $20.5 million for their work
encouraging companies to bring jobs to the United States.

The Buckeye Hills-Hocking Valley Regional Development District, which represents eight counties
in southeastern Ohio, received a $1.7 million grant to help identify, research and document
attributes of up to 1,000 development sites in the region.

The district will make the findings available online. The grant will also pay for work-force
training focused on targeted industries, including metal fabrication, polymers and chemicals, and
wood-furniture manufacturing.

N.E.O. received a $1.79 million grant to help identify up to 25 firms with the potential to
attract foreign investment from the biomedical, automotive and advanced-energy sectors in Akron,
Canton, Cleveland, Lorain and Youngstown. It will also provide technical assistance to those firms
and will support workforce hiring and training in advanced-materials development.

The Obama administration’s Make it in America Challenge aims to accelerate job creation and
encourage business investment in the United States.

Successful applicants support regional economic development, advanced-skills training, greater
supply-chain access and other work aimed at encouraging U.S. companies to keep manufacturing in the
United States, expand it or bring it back from overseas. The challenge also aims to attract foreign
companies to make their products here.